Anybody got a good list of models we should download right now before they start disappearing?

Not trying to start a debate or anything but I’m genuinely curious.

Which religions aren’t cults?

Every hero has a journey.

Yours has just begun.

I warn you, this is not the easy path.

But I urge you to heed the call.

For though there will be trials and tribulations,

soon, my friend, you will own new socks.

Fully agree. I think I know the hidden reason though:

• PDFs are a nightmare to parse
  • Virtually every PDF parser out there attempts to parse them visually which typically leads to poor and inconsistent results.
• HTML, JSON, YAML, Markdown, CSVs, heck even TXT
  • can be mechanically and deterministically parsed easily

I have ADHD. I pretty much have to automate as much of my life as possible to get by. But as you point out, almost no proprietary service allows you to export/download your data in a format that makes it easy to use for integration/automation purposes. It very much upsets me that I can’t easily locally process my:

• bank data
• paystubs
• receipts
• shifts at work
• healthcare data
• etc ad nauseam

I think their reasons for this are that they don’t want it to be easy. The harder they make it, the more reason you have to exclusively look at this data in their app/website. Asshole move if you ask me, as the quickest way forward is usually brute force manual data entry.

New mobile home just dropped

Glad someone caught that XD

I’ve been fully daily driving Linux for about 15 years now, and for me it’s almost all Arch now.

I started out distro-hopping between Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, Slack, etc, but once I found Arch (and spent two weeks getting it installed, booted, and customized exactly to my liking) I was finally at home.

I know the meme. I’m not here to claim superiority, or diminish the value of other perfectly good distros. I love Debian, I love Void, Ubuntu can die in a fire, etc.

What I love about Arch is the lack of bloat. You get precisely what you ask for, no more, no less. You can legitimately run htop and recognize literally every program, and know if something’s wrong immediately.

Every one of my Arch boxes is a perfect little snowflake, suited to exactly the task(s) I built it for. And if there was anything I had to learn or configure along the way? That’s just the journey, man.

I have been eyeballing NixOS though…

I think you’re trying to insinuate that the US government is the only one that’s buying data from data brokers to spy on its own citizens. I hope we can both agree that that’s bad and we don’t like that idea, but I don’t know what makes you think this isn’t also happening elsewhere. Do you have reason to believe it’s not?

Punch the keys for god’s sake!

And what I’m saying is it doesn’t take more time to opt out in my experience. Its just as quick to get manually verified as to be biometrically scanned.

¯\(ツ)/¯ maybe, but as long as I have the option and it’s not tedious to do so (which is the case), I’m gonna opt out and encourage others to do so. Fair enough if your perspective is you want to accept whatever new security theater data collection is implemented in exchange for some perceived convenience. Making your case here with me in this conversation has taken more effort on your part than opting out of facial recognition at the security checkpoint in an airport would have, and I find that fact amusingly ironic.

I’ve been in and out of DFW, BOS, and JFK since these facial recognition scanners went in and I can tell you with a great deal of confidence that there’s no additional wait time, or queue, or anything else if you opt out. There’s a TSA agent right next to the scanner who collects your ID whether you get scanned or not. That’s the same person who otherwise just checks it if you opt out. What are you even on about? Maybe its different at some airports, but I’ve been opting out every time I fly and it’s no big deal.

Actually no, they look at your face and your ID, make sure the information matches, and move you along. No secondary inspection, no difference except you didn’t get scanned with facial recognition. It’s the same process as before facial recognition was implemented.

Why even write that comment?

I think that’s how they said “gold digger” ~2700 years ago